Two items I feel pretty OK about, though not at the level many of you have attained. I am off this weekend between two weekends of call, and have an adult child back in the house as an unintended consequence of the pandemic.
We needed a coat rack in the hallway today. This piece of cherry has been in my shop taking up space too long. It has pleasing figure, but the grain rises from both ends towards the middle. It is too pretty to bust up into one of my BBQ cookers, but too fiddly for anything time consuming or fussy. I went over both faces with a number five to see what could be done, got my edges and ends trued, did use a electric router for the border. Once I had the show face close to finish smooth I got my layout on, got all my holes marked with awl pricks, then erased by pencil marks with the final planing. I did end up with I think three cabinet scrapers in use before I called it good, finish is hemp oil and beeswax.
Also needed a stool for changing in and out of winter boots. My wife uses the foot of the stairs, I come and go through the garage during the winter, child much taller then her mother and using the front door. This is a quick piece out of the scrap bin. I used 15 dgrees as the included angle for the legs. Seat is nominal 9x14 inches (scrap of 2x10) the holes for the legs are on a rectangle 4x8" centered on the bottom. I drew my reference lines at 45 degrees out of each corner, rather than pointing at the opposite corner.
The glue dried overnight last night, so now I can saw the tips off the seat surface, and shape the feet. I was expecting to have to level it, but it is sitting evenly on all four legs as glued up - not an ordinary outcome at my shop. For the legs I drilled the seat with a one inch auger, and then hand tapered lengths of 2x2 with draw knife and spoke shave, leaving a 1" cylnder at the top of each leg.
I plan to build another stool like this in the fullness of time so that I can turn it upside down in the stove room and dry cold weather boots out overnight. First I need to live with this one a little bit and read Chris Shwarz on chair leg angles again after I get to know this piece.